The Integrative Role of the Sigh
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So, I'll also break it and say thank you for inspiring me to wonder about this.
If this website had private responses, that'd solve that issue, but it'd also make abusive behaviour easier. Then you'd need to have a report system that allowed people to provide context, and before you know it, you need a large moderation team rather than the very small one that Hacker News currently gets away with.
I wonder whether there's a way to have it both ways.
For example, as a user on HN, I've often felt so lost in having conversations longer than a day, because I only notice upticks in my karma (is that what it's called here?) number and if someone replied to something not on the first page of my threads, then it may as well disappear. So I've wondered why HN doesn't have notifications, yet maybe there's a hidden moderation pain that I'm not imagining behind the scenes.
Looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, I don't actually see any restrictions on saying nice things. Knock yourself out! It's only if you're criticizing that you have to give yourself a high bar.
It's true that a lot of praise would get tiresome. But that's never a problem in practice. I usually have a clear field any time I want to send someone a compliment.
https://hubermanlab.com/dr-jack-feldman-breathing-for-mental...
Every time I see a slumped alcoholic sipping on their liquid anguish I think the habit must have started with a single sigh, itself an idea planted by a bar of unattainable nostalgia music.
Any source on a sigh being a “breath signal for helplessness”?
Did you just made this sentence up, then use that sentence as a stepping stone to a scene with an imaginary alcoholic whose predicament was caused by a sigh?!
For starters, how is processing or integrating emotion a weakness?
The source is my source. What really gets my goat is the Goldilocks findings; too little sighing and baby death occurs, too much and adult depression sets in. It's all too convenient a match for the present moral zeitgeist of the expert external savior. The study ignores ways anguish can be prevented (in adults) because it doesn't dare find fault with any actors in a situation, instead it looks to play the defeatist mindset off as natural & necessary from earliest life.